Bottle-stopper.



No. 883,657. PATB'NTED MAR. 3l, 1908. I

11. c. A LTGE- BOTTLE sToPPBR.

APPLICATION FILED IOV. 6,1967. V

' displaying the stopper o HENRY C. A. LTGE, OF ANDERSON, INDIANA.

BOTTLE-STOPPER.

Application filed November 6, 1907.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY C. A. LTGE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Anderson, in the county of Madison and State of Indiana, have invented a new and useful Bottle-Stopper, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to bottle stoppers.

The object of the invention is in a ready and ractical manner to prevent the reiilling cfa ottle without the certainty of detection, and further, practically to render it impossible to remove the stopper from the bottle for the purpose of replacing it by a new one, thus additionally to preclude the perpetration of frauds on the public.

With the above and other objects in view, as the nature of the invention is better un* derstood, the same consists in the novel cone struction and combination of parts of a bottle stopper as will be hereinafter fully described-and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification and in which like characters of reference indicate corresponding parts: Figure 1 is a view in perspective of the stopper. Fig. 2 is a vertical sectional view through the upper fportion of a bottle,

the present invention applied thereto. Fig. 3 1s a transverse sectional view taken on the line 3 3, Fig. 2.

The stopper is constructed of a frangible material, preferably of glass, and com rises a head 1 and a body 2. As shown in ig. 1, the head is approximately cone-shaped throughout the greater portion of its length and merges at its upper end into a teat 3 which is sealed by a closure integral with the teat. As will be seen by reference to Fig. 2, at the point of juncture of the teat and the head the material is very thin, this arrangement being adopted in order to permit the ready breaking off of the teat by scratching the neck 4 thereof with a file, or by striking it a sharp blow. The stopper is provided throughout its length with a passage 5, which, as shown in Fig. 2, is approximately cone-sha ed, and through which the liquid containe in the bottle 6 will escape.

The body 2 has its lower portion 7 reduced in cross section to receive a sealing member 8 which may be of cork or rubber, and is nor- Specication of Letters Patent.

Patented March 31, 1908.

Serial No. 401,006.

mally of somewhat greater cross diameter than the like diameter of the bottle neck 9, so that when the sto per is seated within the mouth of the bottleJ a liquid-tight joint will be secured. The base of the head 1 is of somewhat greater diameter than the body 2 in order to provide the circumferential shoulder l0 that will bear upon the outer end or surface of the bottle neck and thus limit th insertion of a stopper therein.

Extending longitudinally of one side of the stopper is a groove or passage 11 which extends below the shoulder 10 and communi* cates with a channel 12 that extends substantially one-half of the way round the body, as clearly shown in Fig. 3. This channel, by reason of the shoulder 10, is caused to register with a circumferential seat 13 formed in the inner wall of the neck adjacent to the mouth, and to receive a lling 14, of a suitable cement, such as plaster of paris, that is supplied thereto through the groove 11 and fills the channel 12. By the provision of this cement seal the stopper is assembled with the neck of the bottle in such manner as practically to render it impossible to become detached therefrom, so that the bottle cannot be reused by providing it with a spurious stopper, while the fracture left by the removal of the teat will be a positive visual proof that the bottle has once been emptied of its contents.

Generally, it will be preferred to construct the head on the lines shown, but it will be obvious, that this exact contour is not essential and may be departed from if found necessary or desirable.

Having thus described the invention what is claimed is 1. The combination with a bottle having its neck provided with an internal circumferential seat, of a stopper having a channel and a groove intersecting the channel, means for causing the channel and the seat to register, and a cement seal filling the channel and a portion of the seat.

2. The combination with a bottle having its neck provided with an internal circumferential seat, of a bottle stopper constructed of'frangible material, having a assage therethrough, the outer end of w ich is sealed, the intermediate portion of the stopmy own, I have hereto affixed my signature per being provided with a channel and a in the presence of two Witnesses.

Ofroove intersecting the Channel, means for zausing the channel and seat to register, and HENRY C' A LUTGE 5 a cement seal iilling the channel and a por- Vitnesses:

tion of the seat. PHILIP B. ONEILL,

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as JOHN H. O. BRYANT. 

